As a follow-up to the previous post, I want to acknowledge the results of this HBR post are solid. The context of today’s work environment do require that leaders develop more strategic skills to navigate beyond heads down organizational efficiency. The one thing that never changes is your greatest challenge will always be to lead yourself first:
“Recently the Chief HR Officer for a healthcare firm asked us to identify the best new framework for leadership that she could use to train and develop a cadre of high potentials. The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders. What, she asked us, did the newest thinking about leadership development say they needed to learn to lead multiple functions, or influence whole segments of the organization, particularly in the rapidly changing world of healthcare?”